Corporations Build Robots

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by BBnum3

What you are talking about has almost definitely happened, but very rarely and I would think more in the past than currently. I seem to remember some horror stories [...] where a team had to give their robot back to their sponsor at the end of the season to be dismantled because the company apparently didn't want their designs to be copied. I am not sure of the details of that situation, but it is an uncommon one.

I have heard this rumor as well. I have also seen previous years' robots in displays and at competitions from the accused teams, which seems to fly in the face of the aforementioned story. Ultimately, I dismiss these rumors as just that - rumors.